Long Siegel Poems

Look up in the sky ! It’s a bird ! It’s a plane.
It’s Superman !
More powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. This fearless...

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When We Mustered Together
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This week...

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View from the Shore
By David E. Siegel
Copyright (c) 2004


 
Above the lake, the angry clouds are ranked
Darkening the day with threats of rain.
Below, the wind has raised up little waves
Marching, row on row, towards the...

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What We American Soldiers Stand For
Picture by Pinterest
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A Story of an American Soldier
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When I decided to become a soldier I took an oath,
The same oath every branch of military takes,
This oath that we...

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A Victim of the war 
 * 
 Steve L. Siegel 
 December 2, 2014 
Once there lived a fine young city boy, 
once so brave, true and Restless, filled with 
energy And somewhat foolish...

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The Light and The Darkness 
     ~*~
Steve L Siegel
11/20/14
Waking up alone on top of a golden mountain range,
Rising with the sun above a reflective ice blue lake,
Passing and down below, to...

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The Three Days, That The Three Of Them Changed Me!  
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I was minding my own business, when 
my wife wanted to go to a bookstore,
she just needed some cards,  dumb me I 
went...

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Lady Ella, Queen of Jazz:
      you brought so many songs to life.
   Forget the words? Just make up new ones
        ...

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A New Breed…
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Some flew jets fast and low. 
Some flew bombers,
high and out of sight of everybody.
But were those 
who flew the Huey gun-ships our heroes.
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We...

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War Is Kind


Steve L. Siegel


10/16/2015


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Do not cry, maiden, for war is kind,


Because the lover threw his wild hands towards the sky.


Excited like a steed he ran on alone,


Do not weep.


War is kind...





War Is Kind
Steve L....

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A Battered Woman 
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When God made woman, he gave her...

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When Jesus Reaching Into My Valley 
Steve L. Siegel 
July, 2015 
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When my Jesus reaches into my valley 
Great things begin to happen when I started to pray, 
Amen, amen, amen, amen 
The angels...

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We lost Five American Soldiers Today 
Steve L Siegel 
July, 2015 
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Today we had a mass shooting 
Were we lost five brave American soldiers 
Not in combat or in some foreign country, 
But, here...

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Plain Old Country Boy 
Steve L. Siegel 
August, 2015 
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I like the smell of clean washed clothes 
Hanging on the line, the sound of my blue faded shirts 
Snapping in the wind, my sun-bleached...

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I'm an alien from Krypton and I'm able to fly.
I'm Superman and bullets don't make me die.
Bombs, tanks and nuclear weapons can't kill me either, I'm invulnerable.
I save at least fifty people every day, that's...

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When God Made a Woman                   
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Steve L. Siegel
November 20, 2014
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To my loving wife Sally Ann
 When...

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I am an American
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My Americans, what America is going through right now
Is not about politics; or Democrats versus Republicans.
It is an assault on the American way of life; because of
What it stands for, freedom. This...

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Those Who Watches Over Us 
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The other day we drove to our National Cemetery. 
As we dove through it, I saw something out of the corner 
of my eye, a slight...

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When God made a woman 

Steve L. Siegel

July,  2015

     To my loving wife Sally Ann  

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I am so thankful that when God made a woman,
From Adam's ribs that before...

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A Single Tree
Steve L. Siegel
August, 2015
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Up on the upper Hoh River there is a trail 
Only two and haft miles long, at end of trail is a tree
Were it has turned into a cross all...

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No Words Will Do 
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            No Words Will Do
          ...

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My Captain, My Captain
                               ...

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A Soldiers Last Taps
Steve L. Siegel
July, 2015
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Yesterday as I walked among long rows of crosses
To where a soldier was being put to rest
I heard twin sounds of bugles playing taps 
We all stood with heads...

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Oh, My Love, My Love
Steve L. Siegel
July, 2015
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I remember the night when I got down on my knees and prayed
To my Lord for a lady like you to come into my life
I was a...

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Old Man Sitting Alone
Steve L, Siegel
Sept. 2015
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I sit here with my dog as cars go whizzing by past
Time even seem to go by slower yet
Most of my friends are now put to rest
Soon that be...

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